PURIM THOUGHTS Mindy Schwartz-Brown
Each too young for the task at hand , Dreaming of dresses , but feeling despair . Saw no choice but to reach beyond . Armed with quivers of beauty and verse , to pierce future ’ s damnation . Esther and Anne saw different ends , likely due to the change in scale . Royalty , and brilliance offer no protection from age-old tropes . Centuries weather family names off graves , But tales and depictions never die . Perhaps if we left the foreskin on to shield sensitive souls , not reveal fears … Could we change the rules , reshape the game , fashion a future less bloodied ? Were we chosen only for eighty year leases , drawn then to Masada redux ? Would our behavior change alter theirs ? Perhaps if we gave billions to the world outside , etching our names on their well-tended walls , would we then change the script ? Or would a sale of our souls still not suffice ? Education will not eradicate evil . Why ask them to comprehend our pain , those who watch it inflicted , permanently safe ?
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